🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@bonifartius Sure, but we didnt do that, we talked about effiency, other pollutants, and energy storage... so not sure how that would apply to any disconnect we have in this specific convo.

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@bonifartius Thats fine, though im baffled where we might be factually at odds.. As far as I know we didnt disagree on any of the facts.

@khird seitan by itself is nothing special.. but when made right it can be quite tasty.. I enjoy it too...

Anytim eim at a table and says "Can you prepare that gluten free" I usually respond "Whatever gluten you take from their dish you can just put in mine " :)

@bonifartius

> it is if the argument for “green energy” is based on the current amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. which it is, that’s why people put things like “born @123ppm” into their profiles here.

Indeed that is what matters for the consumer and our impact on the environment.

> burning plant matter isn’t changing this amount if you do make sure to grow as much as you take.

It absolutely is though... If i burn wood that was obtained by cutting down existing wild trees and not replacing it, then yes I made a **huge** change.

As I said you can do something arbitrary like plant trees in equal number or run a solar panel with a CO2 scrubber to offset the CO2 and have the whole operaton be carbon neutral... but that is not the same as saying that wood is, itself, carbon neutral, it isnt.

As I said before, wood isnt special, you can do ANYTHING to offset carbon, trees, a co2 scrubber, anything, and you will sell a carbon neutral product.

You can literally plant trees and sell gasoline and the gasoline is carbon neutral because its offset by the plants you planted. That doesnt make the same as saying "burning gasoline is always carbon neutral" No gasoline, like trees, is never carbon neutral to burn, it may be part of a carbon neutral supply chain however.

> will the efficiency be as well if the energy is to be stored? we might have more than enough sun here in germany in one half of the year but we can’t store it. same with wind energy.

The effeciency is even higher if you consider storage. Those numbers is just for what percentage of the light is turned to energy vs heat, the storage part is a seperate part of the equation... and going from sun to sugar to electricity has extra steps and is even less effecient then going from electricity to battery to electricity.

> maybe i should add some perspective: i’m not arguing that wind and solar energy are “generally bad” but they are currently sold as panacea here in germany. everything is plastered with wind and solar energy right now. they defacto removed the distance regulation for wind turbines. i think it was 2km, now it’s some hundred meters for the giant ones larger than 200m. solar energy isn’t as crazy, i can’t argue with panels where they let sheep graze underneath.

I certainly have no objection to any issues you have with location of wind turbines and how it might be placed in unwanted locations... thats an issue that is tangental in my eyes... But it very much is a very significant improvement for the environment over lighting stuff on fire, in terms of being carbon neutral (as covered burning plants arent), effecient, and overall far less polluting.

> all while the “greens” try to kill off any use of wood for heating, no matter how sensible it is: i don’t have a link, but there was a story about a sawmill or something like that which burns their leftover wood scraps for heating (with a modern fully automatic device!) and they should replace it with a heat pump. it’s absolute madness here right now.

Burning wood is never sensible compared to other sources... take this example, the act of burning that wood as we covered would release a ton of CO2 and ultimately cause harm as compared to the alternative, burrying it in a ditch somewhere and letting the CO2 remain. If you try to burn it to get energy out of it you just put a ton of CO2 in the air and loose the vast majority of the energy to heat pumped into the air rather than as electricity. You are better off burying the wood and sticking up a solar panel to get that energy in a way that does less harm and actually reduces CO2.

@kilroy_was_here

I dont mind if there are gluten free alternatives, so long as there are gluten ones too. Im talking about resteraunts that advertise as entierly gluten free, or if core items are only gf (like all bread)

@freepeoplesfreepress I do really appreciate that. Both the praise, and knowing i have been helpful to you in some way. The struggle is real but you got this!

@ksaj

The invasion begins.

@georgetakei

My girlfriend: I love cuddling with my little fur baby

Me: please stop calling me that.

Am i the only one who instantly passes a resteraunt by if they advertise a gluten free menu? Like #gluten is literally the healthiest part!

@realcaseyrollins

I'm just messin with ya... Sounds like im at least half way there anyway :)

@thor

@realcaseyrollins

You saying we arent friends? :)

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I am a pretty firm INTJ myself.

@freepeoplesfreepress Glad to hear you are growing :)